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Can I hazard a guess you are doing so in the South East? Try the trains the rest (most) of us experience. Northern Rail, Transpennine, West Coast, ScotRail, Ea

Can I hazard a guess you are doing so in the South East? Try the trains the rest (most) of us experience. Northern Rail, Transpennine, West Coast, ScotRail, East Coast (there already) etc that have or are about to be given to "operator of last resort", i.e. renationalised -- under a Tory government --for having failed badly.

zimpenfish 7y ago
I commuted in the South East (particularly South East London which means SouthEastern trains) and it was a miracle if I was only delayed by 1 minute on a 12-20 minute journey. Coming to down the Charlton line into London Bridge almost always involved a 5-10 minute delay at (the crossover junction just outside the station that I forget the name of).
- alias_neo 7y ago
  I commute there now, the past weeks have been a nightmare of cancelled trains 2 minutes before they're due while I stand at an open air station freezing my nuts off or getting rained on. If we had a little more notice id stay home where it's warm for an extra 15 minutes. The delay you speak of is still there, and it's now worsened by the fact that the new Thameslink trains are given priority to pass as we sit and wait.
- vidarh 7y ago
  Don't know that line, but the approach to London Bridge is overall far less congested after the improvement work over the last few years, despite far more frequent Thameslink trains. It has follow on effects far down some lines as well, as problems at London Bridge would often cause delays far south of Croydon and up again towards Victoria (because Croydon becomes a chokepoint) for example.
GordonS 7y ago
ScotRail train carriages are mostly vastly improved over what they used to be (they don't smell nearly as much of stale piss as they used to...), but still a million miles to the comparative luxury you'd find in Japan. But as elsewhere in the UK, expensive .

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Can I hazard a guess you are doing so in the South East? Try the trains the rest (most) of us experience. Northern Rail, Transpennine, West Coast, ScotRail, Ea

by NeedMoreTea 7y ago

zimpenfish 7y ago
I commuted in the South East (particularly South East London which means SouthEastern trains) and it was a miracle if I was only delayed by 1 minute on a 12-20 minute journey. Coming to down the Charlton line into London Bridge almost always involved a 5-10 minute delay at (the crossover junction just outside the station that I forget the name of).
- alias_neo 7y ago
  I commute there now, the past weeks have been a nightmare of cancelled trains 2 minutes before they're due while I stand at an open air station freezing my nuts off or getting rained on. If we had a little more notice id stay home where it's warm for an extra 15 minutes. The delay you speak of is still there, and it's now worsened by the fact that the new Thameslink trains are given priority to pass as we sit and wait.
- vidarh 7y ago
  Don't know that line, but the approach to London Bridge is overall far less congested after the improvement work over the last few years, despite far more frequent Thameslink trains. It has follow on effects far down some lines as well, as problems at London Bridge would often cause delays far south of Croydon and up again towards Victoria (because Croydon becomes a chokepoint) for example.
GordonS 7y ago
ScotRail train carriages are mostly vastly improved over what they used to be (they don't smell nearly as much of stale piss as they used to...), but still a million miles to the comparative luxury you'd find in Japan. But as elsewhere in the UK, expensive .